Christmas

A Christmas Blessing

John O'Donohue blessing for a joyful and creative future with a background watercolour artwork by Anna Cull
| Anna Cull

My gift for you this Christmas is an excerpt from John O’Donohue’s Benedictus: A Book of Blessings. The background artwork is my own.

Wishing you all a blessed Christmas and a joyful and creative New Year.

John O'Donohue blessing for a joyful and creative future with a background watercolour artwork by Anna Cull

“May my mind come alive today
To the invisible geography
That invites me to new frontiers,
To break the dead shell of yesterdays,
To risk being disturbed and changed.

May I have the courage today
To live the life that I would love,
To postpone my dream no longer,
But do at last what I came here for
And waste my heart on fear no more.”

(excerpt from ‘A Morning Offering’ in Benedictus: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue)

It’s beginning to look a lot like…

| Anna Cull
Sidney Slapstick (knitted 2002, photograph re-edited 2014)

Christmas ~ and as we are planning a very special reunion in December with family and friends we haven’t seen for ten years, it seemed appropriate to repost an image from ten years ago. So here is Sidney Slapstick (I knitted him in 2002 and he first appeared on my blog in 2014).

Have a wonderful Christmas holiday and a peaceful, healthy and creative New Year.

Happy Christmas from New Zealand

acrylic painting of a New Zealand fantail in the bush painted in a semi-abstract style
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‘Piwakawaka’ acrylic on canvas, 225 x 305 mm, 2020. SOLD

A small, gold bauble,
Lightly flitting here and there,
Making Christmas bright.

Wherever you find yourself this Christmas, whatever the circumstances, it is still the season of love and light and family. May the holidays be whatever you need them to be ~ and wishing you all a happy and healthy new year.